Salvation at Hand
… for my struggling fishwrap-production industry. Lawyers will save us, if only we file a class action suit vs. Google. Lileks, struggling with his own old-media woes, finds some tragic beauty in it. OK, maybe its pathetic absurdity:
Right now there’s a dispute at Romanesko over whether Google is to blame for newspapers’ problems – why, they link to things they don’t pay for. One writer confronted the future square on, and came up with two forward-thinking responses: a class-action suit, and union pressure.
That’ll do it. I can see the headline: Newspapers win $1.6 billion verdict against Google, use the money to start a youth-oriented tabloid giveaway paper that competes with YouTube. If you flip the corners of the pages really fast, the pictures appear to move!
h/t Pajamas
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:19 am on Friday, June 1, 2007
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June 1st, 2007 at 4:34 pm
Salvation at Hand…Geez Critt, I thought you was talkin’ about the Army.
June 1st, 2007 at 6:13 pm
Yep, a lawsuit is just what is needed. That’ll save the industry fer sure. Lawyers can solve any problem. They can call it Jaundice vs. Jaundice.